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	She took on a job with the Cottage Industries Restoration Program, a body of the Government of India. While she worked in the program, she met traditional artists and weavers of India. This is said to have impacted her artwork too.		She took on a job with the Cottage Industries Restoration Program, a body of the Government of India. While she worked in the program, she met traditional artists and weavers of India. This is said to have impacted her artwork too.

	Arpita Singh has significant contributions through a different social and political awareness. She was a founder member of the artists' group 'The Unknown', along with other alumni of the Department of Fine Arts of Delhi Polytechnic in the 1960s. The first group show of 'The Unknown' was held at IENS Building (now INS Building<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/Meeting-deadlines-to-beat-the-eclipse/article14633015.ece\|title=Meeting deadlines to beat the eclipse\|last=Baruah\|first=Amit\|date=2016-09-11\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2019-02-02\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>) at Rafi Marg, New Delhi in 1962.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/39877/9/09_chapter%203.pdf\|title=The Personal Space of Woman: Paintings of Arpita Singh}}</ref>		Arpita Singh has significant contributions through a different social and political awareness. She was a founder member of the artists' group 'The Unknown', along with other alumni of the Department of Fine Arts of Delhi Polytechnic in the 1960s. The first group show of 'The Unknown' was held at IENS Building (now INS Building)<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/Meeting-deadlines-to-beat-the-eclipse/article14633015.ece\|title=Meeting deadlines to beat the eclipse\|last=Baruah\|first=Amit\|date=2016-09-11\|work=The Hindu\|access-date=2019-02-02\|language=en-IN\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> at Rafi Marg, New Delhi in 1962.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/39877/9/09_chapter%203.pdf\|title=The Personal Space of Woman: Paintings of Arpita Singh}}</ref>

	=== First Exhibition ===		=== First Exhibition ===

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	== Education ==		== Education ==
	Arpita attended the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200503063311/http://www.dtu.ac.in/ Delhi Polytechnic] in New Delhi from ~~1954–59~~ and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mojarto.com/blogs/mojarto-profiles-artist-arpita-singh\|title=Mojarto Profiles Artist - Arpita Singh\|website=www.mojarto.com\|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref>		Arpita attended the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200503063311/http://www.dtu.ac.in/ Delhi Polytechnic] in New Delhi from 1954 to 1959 and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mojarto.com/blogs/mojarto-profiles-artist-arpita-singh\|title=Mojarto Profiles Artist - Arpita Singh\|website=www.mojarto.com\|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==

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{{Infobox person
| name = Arpita Singh
| image = The Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Shri K.K. Chakravarty conferring the fellowship on eminent artist Arpita Singh, at a function, in New Delhi on October 10, 2014.jpg
| caption = Singh in 2014
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1937}}
}}

'''Arpita Singh''' (born '''Arpita Dutta''', 1937) is an [[India]]n artist. She was born in 1937 at [[Baranagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Baranagar]] in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India.<ref name=ContemporaryWomenArtists>Contemporary Women Artists. St.James Press, 1999.</ref> Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner. Her artistic approach can be described as an expedition without destination. Her work reflects her background.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Collection Highlights|publisher=[[Kiran Nadar Museum of Art]]|isbn=978-81-928037-6-0}}</ref> She brings her inner vision of emotions to the art inspired by her own background and what she sees around the society that mainly affects women. Her works also include traditional Indian art forms and aesthetics, like miniaturist painting and different forms of folk art, employing them in her work regularly.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vadehraart.com/arpita-singh|title=Arpita Singh|website=Vadehra Art Gallery|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303064401/http://www.vadehraart.com/arpita-singh|archive-date=2018-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Arpita left [[Kolkata]] with her mother and brother in 1946, a year before [[1947 in India|India got its independence from the British rule]]. In 1962, she married fellow artist [[Paramjit Singh (artist)|Paramjit Singh]] and they had a daughter, artist [[Anjum Singh]]. Currently{{when|date=December 2020}} she lives in [[Nizamuddin East]], [[New Delhi]].

== Education ==
Arpita attended the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200503063311/http://www.dtu.ac.in/ Delhi Polytechnic] in New Delhi from 1954–59 and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mojarto.com/blogs/mojarto-profiles-artist-arpita-singh|title=Mojarto Profiles Artist - Arpita Singh|website=www.mojarto.com|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref>

==Career==
After her graduation, Arpita Singh worked at the Weavers Service Centre, [[Ministry of Textiles|Ministry of Textiles, Government of India]] in New Delhi and experienced the textiles industry closely. Her stint as a textile designer reflects in her work. The [[Talwar Gallery]] showcased her works in their first ever exhibition, 'Tying Down', dedicated to Arpita Singh in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://talwargallery.com/arpita-tyingdowntime-pr/|title=Press Release – Tying down time « TALWAR GALLERY|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-02}}</ref>

She took on a job with the Cottage Industries Restoration Program, a body of the Government of India. While she worked in the program, she met traditional artists and weavers of India. This is said to have impacted her artwork too.

Arpita Singh has significant contributions through a different social and political awareness. She was a founder member of the artists' group 'The Unknown', along with other alumni of the Department of Fine Arts of Delhi Polytechnic in the 1960s. The first group show of 'The Unknown' was held at IENS Building (now INS Building<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/Meeting-deadlines-to-beat-the-eclipse/article14633015.ece|title=Meeting deadlines to beat the eclipse|last=Baruah|first=Amit|date=2016-09-11|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-02-02|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>) at Rafi Marg, New Delhi in 1962.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/39877/9/09_chapter%203.pdf|title=The Personal Space of Woman: Paintings of Arpita Singh}}</ref>

=== First Exhibition ===
Arpita Singh's first exhibition was held at Kunika Chemould Gallery, organised by Roshan Alkazi, New Delhi in 1972.<ref name=":1" />

=== Exhibitions Thereafter ===
Post 1972, Arpita Singh extensively showed her work at [[Royal Academy of Arts|Royal Academy of Arts at London]] (1982), the [[Centre Georges Pompidou|Centre Georges Pompiduo]], Paris (1986), show in Geneva (1987) and at the [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]] Sydney (1993).<ref name=":0" /> She has also participated in the 3rd and 4th Trienniale of New Delhi & at the [[Havana Biennial]] in 1987 and the Indo-Greek Cultural Exhibition, in Greece, 1984.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Collection Highlights|publisher=Kiran Nadar Museum of Art}}</ref><ref name="Talwar" />

More recently, her works have been exhibited at ‘Modern and Contemporary Indian Art’ at [http://www.vadehraart.com/ Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi], 2006; 'Progressive to Altermodern: 62 Years of Indian Modern Art' at [[Grosvenor Gallery|Grosvenor Gallery, London]], 2009; 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India' presented by the [[Indian Council for Cultural Relations|Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)]] at [http://www.aicongallery.com/ Aicon Gallery], London, 2009; 'The Root of Everything' at Gallery Mementos, [[Bangalore]], 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vadehraart.com/arpita-singh|title=Arpita Singh|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303064401/http://www.vadehraart.com/arpita-singh|archive-date=2018-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Her recent and select solo exhibitions include Work on Paper at Vadehra Art Gallery, 2016.<ref name=":0" />

=== Style ===
Arpita Singh's early paintings were mainly water colors on paper. She would paint usually in black and white ink.<ref name="Milford-Lutzker">Milford-Lutzker, Mary-Ann, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/777857 "Intersections: Urban and Village Art in India"], jstor.org; accessed 6 February 2018.</ref>

By the 80s, she started to paint Bengali folk paintings with women as the focus. She would use vibrant colors in a rather restrained way and her palette is usually dominated by pinks and blues.<ref name=":0" /> Her paintings would show women doing daily work and following simple routines in their lives.<ref name="ContemporaryWomenArtists" /> Arpita would draw daily use objects like trees, flowers, flower vases, animals, teapots, pillows, festoons and flags, and show women surrounded by them. Child Bride with Swan (1985) and Girl Smoking Cigarette (1985) are examples of her protagonists, leading uncomplicated lives.<ref name=":2" />

In the 90s, Arpita's style of painting shifted to oil on canvas, but she continued to paint women-centric art. A lot of women emotions started to become evident in her paintings - Joy, sorrow, hope, and many more. She painted a series of paintings on the subject "Women with a Girl Child" in the last decade of 20th century.<ref name=":1" /> Arpita would showcase the problems like hatred, social injustice, etc. faced by a contemporary woman in her art. She would also paint around the ills related to girl child in India. In some of her paintings the women appear nude, but her paintings do not have sexual overtones and reflect the woman's vulnerability.<ref name=":2" />

Arpita's paintings spoke a lot about wars and situation of turmoil at the national and international level. She would draw objects like guns, knives, cars and planes, soldiers, killers and corpses. India's former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, communal riots and the Gulf War are some examples. Women would continue to find the center stage in her art and are shown at the receiving end. The White Chair (1983), The series on [[Ayesha Kidwai]], Durga (1993), My Mother (1993) and A Dead Man on the Street: is It You, Krishna (1994) are some of her paintings echoing this mood.

==Awards==
Arpita Singh has exhibited all over the world, at both individual and group exhibits. She has also won a number of awards for her work.<ref name="Profile">[http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/arpita_singh.htm Arpita Singh profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223092040/http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/arpita_singh.htm |date=2007-12-23 }}, contemporaryindianart.com; accessed 6 February 2018.</ref> Those include:

2014: Fellowship of Lalit Kala Akademi<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/voices/between-the-poetic-and-the-visual|title=Between the Poetic And the Visual|website=OPEN Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref>
2011: Padma Bhushan
1998-1999: [[Kalidas Samman]], Bhopal<ref name="Talwar">{{Cite web |url=http://talwargallery.com/arpita-bio/ |title=Arpita Singh |publisher=Talwar Gallery |access-date=2018-03-30}}</ref>
1991: Parishad Samman, [[Sahitya Kala Parishad]], [[New Delhi]]<ref name="Profile" />

== Exhibitions ==
Arpita Singh has more than twenty solo shows to her credit including several in Chandigarh, Bhopal, Mumbai and New Delhi.<ref name=":0" /> They include:

; 2019 : Submergence: In the midst of here and there, at KNMA, Saket, Delhi<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/arpita-singh-of-stories-untold/article26148526.ece|title=Arpita Singh: Of stories untold|last=Datta|first=Ella|website=@businessline|language=en|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref>
; 2018 : [https://www.talwargallery.com/exhibitions/arpita-singh Tying down time II], [[Talwar Gallery]], New York
; 2017 : [https://www.talwargallery.com/exhibitions/arpita-singh2 Tying down time], [https://www.talwargallery.com/exhibitions/arpita-singh2 Talwar Gallery], New York<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Exhibitions « TALWAR GALLERY|url=https://www.talwargallery.com/artists/arpita-singh#tab:slideshow|url-status=live|access-date=2019-03-12|language=en-US}}</ref>
; 2006 : Picture Postcard 2003 – 2006, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi <ref name=":0" />
; 2003: Memory Jars, [http://www.bosepacia.com/ Bose Pacia Modern], New York <ref name=":0" />
; 1994 : Drawing 94, [http://www.galleryespace.com/ Gallery Espace], New Delhi<ref name=":0" />

==Publications==
2018: ''Arpita Singh: Tying down time,'' Talwar Gallery <ref>Datta, Ella: Talwar, Deepak: Singh, Arpita ''[https://talwargallery.com/tying/ Arpita Singh: Tying down time]'' (1st ed.). Talwar Gallery

{{ISBN|978-81-936663-1-9}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.artnet.com/artists/arpita-singh/ Arpita Singh] at [[Artnet.com]]
*[https://www.dictionnaire-creatrices.com/fiche-arpita-singh Arpita Singh] at {{ill|Dictionnaire-Creatrices|fr|Dictionnaire universel des créatrices}}
*[https://www.ledelarge.fr/16509_artiste_SINGH_Arpita Arpita Singh] at {{ill|Le Delarge|fr}}
*[https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00170196 Arpita Singh] at the [[Benezit Dictionary of Artists]]
*[https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/arpita-singh-of-stories-untold/article26148526.ece Arpita Singh: Of stories untold], [[The Hindu Businessline]]
*[https://scroll.in/magazine/836057/how-a-brief-interlude-of-abstract-art-transformed-the-career-of-the-legendary-arpita-singh How a brief interlude of abstract art transformed the career of the legendary Arpita Singh], [[Scroll.in]]

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